Schleissheim Palace
The Schleissheim Palace (German: Schloss Schleißheim) are actually three palaces in a grand baroque park in the village of Oberschleissheim near Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
History
The history of Schleissheim Palace started with a renaissance country house founded by William V. Under his son Maximilian I Heinrich Schön extended the buildings to the so-called Old Palace between 1617 and 1623. Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria died here in 1679.
Then Enrico Zuccalli built Lustheim Palace in the park in 1684-1688 for Maximilian II Emanuel and his first wife, the Austrian princess Maria Antonia. Today the palace houses a grand collection of Meissen porcelain.
Zuccalli also finally erected the baroque New Palace between both castles in 1701-1704 as new residence, since the elector expected the imperial crown. But after Max Emanuel had lost Bavaria for some years in the War of the Spanish Succession the construction work was interrupted. Joseph Effner enlarged the building to one of the most impressive baroque palaces in 1719-1726. Very imposing are the grand hall, the grand gallery and the stairway, decorated by artists such as Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Cosmas Damian Asam and Jacopo Amigoni. Most of the rooms still show their original late baroque decoration celebrating the elector's victories against the Turks. A gallery of baroque paintings is today exhibited in several rooms.
The park is one of the rare preserved baroque gardens in Germany and was arranged by Girard in 1720.